MITRULA. 29 



Gregarious, caespitose, or solitary, soft, glabrous 

 hollow, rather brittle, 1 to 3 inches in height ; head very 

 variable in form, globose, ovate, or broadly clavate ; 

 summit generally obtuse, bright orange yellow, filled 

 when young with silky filaments, which disappear with 

 age, leaving it hollow; stem white, varying from a 

 yellowish to a pinkish tinge, enlarged upwards, even, 

 and crooked. 



Name — Palus, a marsh ; found in marshes. 



Karnes Castle, Isle of Bute (Dr. Greville). Pitlochrie 

 (Dr. Thomson). Penzance (Mr. Ralfs). Aboyne, New 

 Pitsligo (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Bournemouth ; St. 

 George's Hill, Weybridge (Mr. F. Currey). Keston 

 Common ; Horsham ; Penicuick (Dr. M. C. Cooke). North 

 of Ireland (Templeton). Baldovan Woods (Gardener). 

 North Wootton, Norfolk (Dr. John Lowe). Trefrew, North 

 Wales ! Capel Curig, North Wales ! Llyn Ogwin, North 

 Wales ! 



3. Mitrula alba. Wor. Smith. 



Head globose, even, white ; stem stuffed, white ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia lanceolate, hyaline, eguttulate, 

 16 x 3/x. 



Mitrula alba — W. G. Smith, " Grevillea," i. p. 136, 

 t. 10, lower figure ; Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 177. 



Differs entirely from M. pcdudosa, Fries, in colour, 

 and especially in the globose head and stuffed stem (W. 

 G. Smith, I. c). 



Amongst submerged leaves. April, 1877. 



Name — Albus, white. 



East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton (Mr. Cecil H. Sp. 

 Perceval). 



Excluded Species. 



Mitrula rninuta — Sow. (small orange Mitrula). Very 

 minute ; receptacle lanceolate, orange ; stem equal, pallid. 



Fries, " Sys. Myco.," i. p. 492. Clavaria rninuta — 

 Sow., t. 391. 



On the bractese of Dipsacus pilosus. 



Rajdeigh, Essex (Rev. R. B. Francis). 



